On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:03:25PM +0000, Harry Palmer wrote: > I'm a bit confused with how this works in Debian (in spite of the > "we've greatly simplified this with Debian's kernel-package" etc > etc....). > > I can see how every custom kernel build will necessitate a pcmcia > package rebuild immediately after it. I used to do all this manually > with slackware. > > I don't understand how running the make-kpkg utility can second-guess > all the pcmcia configuration options - eg. apm support, cardbus > support, etc... Could someone kindly enlighten me? Or at least point > me to a document that gives a real-world example of the steps to build > new laptop kernal and pcmcia sources with debian. >
I was never able to find the right Debian way to do this either. Although I admit I didn't look too hard. After 2.4 the pcmcia stuff is all in the kernel. So I just did the make-kpkg thing and the did the pcmcia-cs thing and everything was fine. The one problem I had was that /etc/pcmcia/config had the wrong module[s] "bound" to my card. My "orinoco" card was bound to the old wvlan module instead of the new "hermes"/"orinoco"/"orinoco_cs" combo. No big deal, though.
